Item: Cisco Nexus Series Switches
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Cisco Nexus 9000 series is widely used as data center spine and leaf switches and also for some edge use cases. A wide range of products and services within wireless, voice, and video use Cisco Nexus switches.

Pros and Cons

Cisco has the best Customer support--TAC
Cisco Nexus supports a wide range of protocols and features

Speed of rolling out new features and functionality needs to be improved
Needs to streamline commands across different Cisco platforms

Most Important Features

Wide range of features allows same platform to be used across various organizations for different services like voice, video and data.
Highly responsive support team

Return on Investment

Cisco Nexus 9000 series has been able to overcome the stigma behind the Nexus 5000/7000 line and stand out on its own
Higher cost point but meets business requirements

Alternatives Considered

Arista 7000 series and Juniper QFX Series

Meets feature requirements.
Passes quality assurance tests.
A trusted vendor with good past experiences with the sales and support teams.

Key Insights

Do you think Cisco Nexus Series Switches delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco Nexus Series Switches's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Nexus Series Switches live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cisco Nexus Series Switches go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Nexus Series Switches again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Arista 7000 series, Juniper QFX Series

Likelihood to Recommend

Well-suited for enterprise and datacenter use cases. Spine leaf architecture with Cisco Nexus 9000 leads to high availability and easy scalability. It's compatible with most other vendor equipment as well.

Not suited for core and backbone networks or for small enterprises due to high capital expenditure.

Streamline datacenter and enterprise networking with Cisco Nexus

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Nexus